This work is devoted to the transformation of architectural and planning structure Rostov-on-Don city in first half twentieth century. Its main shortcomings, identified 1920s – 1930s, ways solving them are analyzed. The attempts create a new socialist considered. It covers destruction caused by German fascist invaders during two occupations Rostov-on-Don, which accounted for more than one third...

It must seem to many people that the collapse of the Soviet Union (and the planned economies of Eastern Europe) effectively ends the socialist calculation debate, with a decisive verdict in favour of the market. We argue that this conclusion is unwarranted. Soviet socialism presented a specific form of planning with definite shortcomings of its own, and its collapse need not rule out alternativ...

For the first thirty years after the triumph of his revolution, Fidel Castro championed Cuba as a model socialist society. Gone were the casinos, the bootlegging Americans, the mafia, and the brothels they frequented. Socialist society, he claimed, is superior to capitalism. Girls do not have to sell themselves for money in Cuba’s new society. Women gain liberation through socialism. They have ...

This contribution to Science & Society's special issue on socialist economic organisation brings together the basic model proposed in Devine (1988) and subsequent work developing and elaborating that model (Adaman and Devine 1994, 1996, 1997, mimeo; Devine 1992, 1997, forthcoming). It is part of a project which is designed to assist in the revival of the movement for socialism by developing a w...

Since the collapse of socialist system, cities in Central Eastern European countries have undergone dynamic transformation processes. Those processes attracted noteworthy scientific attention, particularly local academic circles, causing revived interest urban studies region. However, former has become centre discussion itself. This is mostly related to validity theories and methodologies born ...

The article examines the devaluation of concrete in Central and Eastern Europe local residents’ architectural professionals’ commitment to ‘modernize’ socialist-period housing estates due perceived ‘poor’ quality materials their ‘unaesthetic’ appeal. Using case estate Wrocław Manhattan built 1972–1978 Polish city renovated 2015–2016, I argue that, although modernist region western European cont...